GOP provides answer to 'disconnect' question

Sixty-eight percent of Illinois voters voted in favor of referendums on traditional Democratic issues (increasing minimum wage, added taxes, mandated insurance benefits) while Quinn received less than 50 percent of the vote. On Nov. 19, letter writer John Morgan asks for theories on how referendums designed to go hand-in-hand with votes for Quinn didn't materialize, and how Bruce Rauner could have won.

John, although there clearly are an increasingly number of people who want something for nothing, my theory is that they're tired of empty promises from the same old ineffective leaders that have run this state into the ground over the last 14 years.

Even if voters were not paying attention or can't figure out if it's the Daley Family, the Stroger Family, the Madigan Family, or any other monarchical family of Illinois politics that is to blame, the common thread in Chicago, Cook County, and our state is that it is dominated by Democrats, which Bruce Rauner is not.

Riddle solved.

Keith Gray

Mettawa